The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-11-18

Verein of Chicago. Now that the excitement
consequent on that occurrence has wholly
passed away and when the public is in pos
ton to view the affair in the calm light Of his
tory brief and impartial review of the at
tempted outbreak, its causes and it's results
can not fail to be of more than passing interest.
February II, 1886, occurred the strike of the
employees Of the Mccormick Reaper Works
Mccormick shut down his works and afterwards
employed some hundreds Of non-union men I'M
der police protection The trades unions and
universal strike to enforce the eight-hour sys-
tenn, and had fixed on Monday, May 8, as the
date for the new order of things to go into eff
eroup sunday az NAY he fhe onal
at Emma street, where George En-
gel. Adolph Fischer, and other noted An
archlsts proposed plan for fighting the police
and militia during the riots that would be
stirred up within the next few days. Monday.
May g. Spies attended meeting Of lumber
showers, held near McCormick's factory, and,
though the president of the meeting and other
members of the Lumbershovers' Union pro-
tested against him speaking, he made a.
violent and infiammatory harangue that soon
aroused the passions OF the crowd to
fighting pitch. While he was speaking the
bell at the Mccormick factory rang,
indicating that the days work was
Some one sho1ted: ''There goes the scabs r
and the crowd which Spies was addressing in
stantly rushed to the factory and began pelting
tated conflict. The p, police We're notified and
soon arrived in patrol wagons. During the
conflict stones were thrown and shots were
fired by both the police and the mob. AS
soon as the shots were fired Spies, not know
ing whether any one was killed, ran for
Blue Island avenue car and returned to the
city He Immediately Went to the office of
yenge" CIRCULAR The circular was headed
In heavy type "Revengep' 'sWorking-men
to arms! p and set forth that the bloodhounds
the police, had killed six of their brothers at
Nnrminkc n
had dared to ask for a shortening of the
hours OF toll. and to show them that they
must be satisfied with whatever their bosses
condescended to allow them or be killed.
IF you are men,, ii concluded, eff YOU are
the sons of your grandsireS who have shed
their blood to free you, then you will rise in
your might, Hercules, and destroy the hideous
monster that seeks to destroy you. TO ARMS,
WE CALL YOU TO ARMSr' The circular
was set up by seven or eight men in the Ar-
,eater-Ze.ta1g office and stricken off from the
press with the utmost speed, and then rapidly
Circulated over the city. principally in places
where the workng-men on strike were ac-
enstomed to congregate. That day there
appeared in the Arbeter Zeitung the cabalis-
tic signal. "Y Il Come Monday night va
signal which meant that the members of
all the armed sections and groups should meet
at Greifs Hall, No. 81 West Lake street. About
seventy of the conspirators met that night IN
,Greif's basement, and there the Haymarket
meeting was planned. Fischer was appointed
TO get out the circulars calling the meeting, and
voc SAPOeuoe e.isAu so,ooY ,pc.oP4C, fouiu 70
present, the ostensible object being the further
ance of the eight-hour movement and q protest
against the alleged bloodshed at MeCormick's.
Engel here unfolded the plan of warfare
adopted at the Emma street meeting. 1t
was arranged that the different armed or
CARNATIONS should station themselves at diff
fer MT places in the outskirts of the city and
be ready to come to the assistance of the
working-men at any place where they should
be attacked: that they should De armed with
bombs and other weapons, and in case of
conflict should destroy the police wherever
seen, and should annihilate the firemen and
destroy their hose. Different bodies were
also to march toward the center of the
city, destroying all who opposed them.
The signal "Ruher' was to appear in
the Arbeite1-Z situlg AFTERNOON issue) to in
dictate that all armed bodies should act accord
ing to this arrangement Fisher wrote the cir
cular calling the meeting. The word
'sRuhe!" appeared in the paper next after
noon. In the morning Of the same day Louis